Over the years, I’ve come to recognize the value of online scrapbooking classes. I suppose I’m a learning junkie anyway, but online scrapbooking classes have not only taught me about scrapbooking- or given me great ideas- but they’ve made me realize...

I’d imagine that like me, you spend most of your time creating a page on the design of the layout. Am I right? For something we spend so much time on, it pays to really think about it- and if you want your pages to tell a story- how the design tells your story....

Wednesday I mentioned that the pictures aren’t necessarily the story- that really the two things are separate. One of the ways we begin to see that is when we keep a list of pages that we want to create- a list created without looking at our photos and...

unlike a book or a photo, we get to use a variety of elements to tell our story in our scrapbooking pages. I thought today, I’d look at some of the elements of scrapbooking stories. And, I thought I might harken back to one of the first road trips that my...

While ultimately I scrapbook for me, myself, and I, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I love sharing pages with others. It’s one of the joys of scrapbooking to share our pages with others. Joys of Scrapbooking- Sharing Pages Here’s the thing. . ....

This week in scrapbooking, we’ve really been talking about finding the joy in scrapbooking. Did you catch that? Monday I talked about the type of scrapbooker I’ve come to be and Wednesday, I encouraged you to find a positive word to fill in the blank,...

Monday, as you might recall, I asked you to fill in the blank: I am a ______ scrapbooker. I decided to take it a step further and asked that same question to 1,300 people. The results, while somewhat surprising to me, aren’t really that shocking. Stirred Not...

I’ve talked a lot the past few weeks about the types of stories that I like to tell. You may have noticed that I really don’t focus on techniques and supplies as much as I do the story. It’s not that I don’t like trying different things or...

I’ve talked a lot in the past few weeks about the types of things I scrapbook as I shared ideas for scrapbooking. It’s probably no secret that some of my favorite pages the ones celebrating tiny little moments. It was when I quit trying to scrapbook the...

If I had to guess many of you have plans to celebrate Valentine’s Day tomorrow (and your kids today.) ‘Round here we don’t do Valentine’s Day except I might get a rose bush. It’s not a buh-hum-bug, it’s that our anniversary was just...